← The Institute for Democracy

The Institute for Democracy is a non-governmental organization (Reg. No. 3767 in the Ministry of Justice), supporting democratic processes in the Republic of Moldova, the ideas of the open society, protecting the human rights and fighting the trafficking and violence in any forms.

The Institute for Democracy is a member of Anticorruption Alliance of Moldova, Civic Coalition for Free and Fair Elections "Coalition 2007" and Civic Coalition for Free and Fair Elections "Coalition 2009".

The Institute for Democracy donors: National Endowment for Democracy, US Embassy in Moldova, Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), Eurasia Foundation, Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Ukraine and Moldova, Royal Norwegian Embassy in Romania and Moldova, Partnership for Transparency Fund, BEARR Trust, Balkan Trust for Democracy and German Marshall Fund of the United States, etc.

The Main Projects of the Institute for Democracy

 1. The Institute for Democracy has realized the project "Education for Democracy in Gagausia", supported by US Embassy in Moldova, National Endowment for Democracy and Balkan Trust for Democracy. The aim of the project: to teach and train the teachers in Gagausia in modern methods of teaching democratic values for letting them use all the knowledge in their work at schools and in higher institutions of Moldova.

2. The Institute for Democracy has realized the project "Increasing the Role of Police in Fighting the Trafficking", supported by Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (osce) and Royal Norwegian Embassy in Romania and Moldova.

3. The Institute for Democracy has realized the project “Development of Leadership”, supported by Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Ukraine and Moldova.

4. The Institute for Democracy has realized the project "Organization of the Civil Anticorruption Education of the Youth and the Lecturers", supported by Eurasia Foundation (Moldova). Project objectives: to assist the realization of the National Strategy of Preventing and Fighting Corruption; to promote the organization of the civil anticorruption education of the students and the lecturers of the Comrat State University; to contribute to the mobilization and involvement of the students at the Comrat State University in the struggle with the tendencies of corruption in the university, to help in the formation of student initiative groups for the civil resistance against the corruption; to elaborate and to implement in the curriculum of the Comrat State University the subject on the anticorruption education for the students' consciousness of the negative influence on the development of the human society and the formation of the negative attitude to it.

5. The Institute for Democracy has realized the project "Fighting Academic Corruption", supported by Partnership for Transparency Fund (PTF). Project objectives: to work out and to implement the transparent methods of the financing the universities; to implement the mechanism of control for the cases of corruption for taking measures for their liquidation (the creation of the Anticorruption Council in the Tiraspol State University); to inform students and professors of Tiraspol State University about corruption phenomena and its manifestations; to assist the realization of the National Anti-Corruption Strategy.

6. The Institute for Democracy has realized the project "Fighting the Trafficking in Women and Girls", supported by BEARR Trust (UK).

7. The Institute for Democracy has realized the project “Anti-corruption Struggle in Moldova”. Within the project for executives of the central and local bodies of power and journalists, eight seminars have been held and the articles on the characteristics of the methods of struggle with corruption and the enlargement of the citizens’ right to the access to the information have been published (the articles have been published with the support of American Bar Association /Central European and Eurasian Law Initiative).

8. The Institute for Democracy has implemented the project “Increase of the Role of Mass-media in Struggle against Corruption: Access to Information”. Within the framework of the given project 5 seminars were organized and the book on a role of mass-media in struggle against corruption in Moldova was published (the book has been prepared in partnership with Transparency International – Kazakhstan). International Standard Book Number (ISBN) - 978-9975-9509-5-4.

9. The Institute for Democracy has realized the project "Elections for the People’s Assembly of Gagausia 2008" (Authorization for monitoring of elections, issued by Central Election Commission of Gagausia № 15/2, 14.03.2008).

10. The Institute for Democracy has realized the project "Election Process Monitoring -2007" (Authorization for monitoring of elections, issued by Central Election Commission of Republic of Moldova № 636, 23.05.2007). Goal of the project: to monitor the general local elections 2007 and with the aim to undertake the following main actions: short and long term observation of the election campaign, monitoring of the electoral process media coverage, civic and electoral education for voters and electoral public servants.

11. The Institute for Democracy published the book “The Local Governing of Moldova”. The book was published on the eve of the general local election and was aimed at the growth of the understanding of the role and importance of local governing in the democratic state. The book promoted the increase of the participation of the citizens in voting in the local election.

12. The Institute for Democracy has held the conference on the topic “Civil Education”. After the conference the institute published the booklet that was distributed free among the Moldova higher and high schools.

13. The Institute for Democracy has put into practice the project “Assistance to the Democratic Development of the Republic of Moldova”. Within the given project the Democracy Institute has accomplished a wide informational campaign and has published more that 30 articles in the Moldova mass media on the topics of the development of democracy and human rights. The articles have been published in the journals “Law and Life”, “National Legal Journal”, “Accountancy and Taxation Consulting”, “Big Money”, “Business Law”, and in other editions. The goal of the given project was the increase of the access of the population to the information on the human rights and the mechanisms of their defense.